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Ph.D. Computer Science |
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque |
Jul 2006 |
University of Washington, Dept. of Astronomy, Feb 2010 - present
Research Scientist IV - Work in the LSST group (under Andrew Connolly) on the development of massively parallel image processing routines using Hadoop. Work has focused on image coaddition, wherein multiple partially overlapping images are registered, stacked, and mosaiced into a single uniform result. Our test dataset is the SDSSDB, approximately thirty terabytes comprising millions of images. LSST will require processing equivalent data per night nonstop for many years.
University of Washington, Applied Physics Lab, May 2007 - Feb 2010
Software Engineer IV - Development on the Sonar Simulation Toolkit (headed by Robert Goddard) which uses eigenrays to approximate underwater acoustic transmission. Work included incorporation of new external libraries, large-scale OO design and development of new features, optimization and redesign for performance, refactorization, CPPUnit testing. Development of a real-time data acquisition and FFT processing system with low data-loss tolerances, a need for rapid throughput, and preparation for future parallelism.
University of New Mexico, Jan 2007 - May 2007
Course Instructor - CS241, Data structures/algorithms, taught in C.
University of New Mexico, Jan 2001 - May 2006
Graduate Research Assistantships - see Research
University of New Mexico, Sep 1999 - May 2003
Graduate Teaching Assistant - Intermediate (200-level) and Advanced (300-level) C++
The Institute for Genomic Research, Sep 1997 - Aug 1999
Software developer, C++ - Bioinformatics software development for DNA sequencing tools and closure analysis.
Many computer programs, some listed below. See my website for a longer listing and detailed descriptions.
Android
• WildSpectra Mobile shows real-time scrolling spectrograms on Android cellphones.
• Shead Spreet is a spread sheet for Android cellphones with 50,000 installs and 1000 commercial purchases.
HCI
• Druid (PhD thesis) is a vector drawing program (like Adobe Illustrator) which enables interwoven surfaces (Celtic knots, Olympic rings, etc.) and which provides an isomorphic effcient interface.
Image/Acoustic Signal Processing
• Keith's Image Stacker is used widely in the amateur astrophotography community. It provides image stacking, Laplacian sharpening, wavelet denoising, etc. It has received widespread positive review online and in the magazines Astronomy and Sky & Telescope.
• WildSpectra is a collaborative effort with Dr. R. Haven Wiley (Biology dept, UNC-CH). WildSpectra is a real-time spectrogram analyzer for the Mac that offers time- and frequency-section analysis. WildSpectra is used in Dr. Wiley's research lab and by researchers throughout the acoustic-biology community.
Distributed Computing
• Distributed Mandelbrot Set generates fractal images by farming job-segments to multiple computers over a network. Automatic load-balancing insures optimal performance.
ALife
• Numerous projects in evolutionary algorithms, robotics, and flocking are described on my website.
Web Sites: http://keithwiley.com, http://music.keithwiley.com, http://moviehurl.keithwiley.com
Sky & Telescope magazine. Software review: Keith's Image Stacker and Keith's Astroimager, Aug 2004.
First place in the first International Online Artificial Life Creator's Contest, Cyberbotics Webots, khepera robot sim., Jul 1999.
Cover design for the Computer Science at UNM Student Conference proceedings, 2006.
Proceedings chair for the Computer Science at UNM Student Conference committee, 2006.
Cover design for the Workshop Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life, 2000.
Winter 2003-Summer 2006, Ph.D. thesis
Design and implementation of Druid, a novel computer-assisted drawing program which permits easy construction of scenes of interwoven surfaces.
Summer 2003-Winter 2003, Ontology and Semantic Languages, UNM C.S. Dept/Sandia National Labs
Background research into the field of ontology and specific languages such as DAML+OIL and OWL.
Spring 2001-Spring 2002, Autonomous Robotic Glider, UNM C.S. Dept/Sandia National Labs
Use of genetic programming trees to evolve behavioral routines for autonomous robotic unpowered gliders. These gliders must find and use various forms of rising air to say aloft for extended periods of time.
Summer 1997, Auditory Neuroethology Lab, UMCP Psyc Dept
Study of bat echolocation and training via positive reinforcement.
Peer Reviewed
Wiley, K. B., Williams, L. Representation of Interwoven Surfaces in 2½D Drawing. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2006.
Wiley, K. B., Williams, L. Representation of Interwoven Surfaces in 2½D Drawing. Proc. of CHI, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montréal, Canada, 2006.
Invited
Wiley, K. B., Chambers, S. Long Exposure Webcams and Image Stacking Techniques. The Art and Science of CCD Astronomy, 2nd edition. David Ratledge, editor, 2005.
Wiley, K. B. Long Exposure Webcams and Image Stacking Techniques for the Budget-Minded Astrophotographer. Astronomy. Bakich, Michael, editor. Dec, 2003.
Wiley, K. B. Pattern Evolver, An Evolutionary Algorithm that Solves the Nonintuitive Problem of Black and White Pixel Distribution to Produce Tiled Patterns that Appear Gray. The Handbook of Genetic Algorithms. Chambers, Lance D., editor. CRC Press. 1999.